"One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names."

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Source : Samuel Hahnemann (1982). “Organon of medicine”, J P Tarcher

Samuel Hahnemann

#Names Quotes #Confusion Quotes #Nerves Quotes

“LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.”
“Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.”
“I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.”
“Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.36
“Leave the atom alone.”
“You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.”
“All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?”

Source : Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1894). “Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures”
“I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.”

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